Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials indicted, convicted or having pleaded guilty; seven more fired or resigned. Most of them shown to have been either in charge of, or aware of, illegal operations. The whole White House pervaded by an atmosphere of aggressive amorality?amorality almost raised to a creed. A ruthless determination to hide as much of this as possible from the public and investigators...
When Stewart Stern wrote Rachel, Rachel for Miss Woodward, he displayed a gift for biting dialogue and for transforming ordinary situations into sequences that carry a sharp sting of recognition. The same ability is repeated here, notably at a family funeral where the mourners try to hide their dislike of one another. Gilbert Gates directed I Never Sang for My Father, an underrated film that was also about family tensions. He shows himself once again to be an unpretentious director with a talent for worming himself to the emotional core of characters and scenes...
This view, Kilson said, is "liberal and patronizing" because it tries to hide the inferior academic performance of blacks at Harvard. He said his critics, in disputing his article, have used statistics for the performance of blacks but have avoided comparing the statistics for blacks and whites
...four of them then play cat and mouse for a time. Miss Barclay is forced to hide every time Mrs. Prentice enters the room. Mrs. Prentice discovers and confiscates Miss Barclay's dress so that the latter is forced to remain in hiding. The bellboy hides when Dr. Prentice enters and Dr. Prentice--appearing crazier and crazier as the evening progresses--endeavors to conceal Miss Barclay, her underwear and his own true motives and actions...
...resident summed it up: "We had a riot and the doors were painted. Next week we'll have another and they'll paint the halls." But for the bureaucrats and for each contestant in the small battles with poverty which rage throughout Cambridge, the lesson is clear: paint cannot hide the failures of Roosevelt Towers...